Today's Verse: Proverbs 22:7 (NIV) - The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
This proverb offers an observation about the world as it exists. There are, of course, more poor than rich. Wealth creates power and influence, while poverty creates dependence and servitude.
Today's Commentary: In the end, however, God will even things out. It is not how much power and influence that we have that counts in God's eyes. It is how much that we love Him and our neighbors. We can use power and wealth either for God's purposes and to help our neighbor, or for our own selfish intentions.
Perhaps this verse also offers a commentary on our current economic situation. Many in this country, in order to satisfy their material wants and desires, have selfishly used borrowing as a means to enrich themselves. Yet, that debt, in this economic downturn, has caught them upside down, and instead of enjoying their intended riches, they have lost their homes and belongings and have become servants to their debt and those who they owe.
This proverb offers an observation about the world as it exists. There are, of course, more poor than rich. Wealth creates power and influence, while poverty creates dependence and servitude.
Today's Commentary: In the end, however, God will even things out. It is not how much power and influence that we have that counts in God's eyes. It is how much that we love Him and our neighbors. We can use power and wealth either for God's purposes and to help our neighbor, or for our own selfish intentions.
Perhaps this verse also offers a commentary on our current economic situation. Many in this country, in order to satisfy their material wants and desires, have selfishly used borrowing as a means to enrich themselves. Yet, that debt, in this economic downturn, has caught them upside down, and instead of enjoying their intended riches, they have lost their homes and belongings and have become servants to their debt and those who they owe.
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